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Miso salmon and udon noodles stir fried with carrots, daikon radish, and pea shoots

Coconut curry monkfish

Friday was pizza night. Margharita Mushroom Pepperoni Carbonara Yesterday I baked some pita and made chicken shawarma. There was also a large salad not pictured

Cashew-cauliflower curry, paneer butter masala, rice and naan

1 cup flour 1 cup cornstarch 1.5 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder 12 ounces beer Let rest in fridge for 20 minutes before using it. Last night, chicken parmesean. My nephew is heading back to campus on Monday after doing last semester remote, so this week I am making all of his favorite dishes.

I never see it in the markets here either (not that I have been inside a market since March). It's always a treat when it comes in the fish share. Last night, miso glazed salmon over udon noodles with pea shoots

Fish and chips. The fish was cusk from my fish share.

Linguini with crushed olives

Chicken roti. I made a mango salsa to go with it because the curry was quite spicy and I wanted to be sure that my niece would eat it.

They are bouncy and light. I really like them. Last night, my sister and I made vegetable fried rice, garlicky broccoli, sesame chicken wings, and crabless rangoons.

Yes. It is Andrea Nguyen's recipe from her Banh Mi Handbook. I looked for the recipe online but could only find an incomplete version on google books. Basically you blend an onion, some sugar, cornstarch, egg white, and fish sauce in a food processor and then add the salmon. The salmon gets blended in briefly and then rested five minutes, after which it gets processed for a full minute. At the end you stir in the herbs of your choice (I use cilantro and sometimes add hot chiles), then you shape it into cakes and sauté until browned on both sides. Then you slice it on an angle to make it easy to eat in a sandwich. It's one of my go-to meals when my fish share gives me thin tail pieces of salmon (which they have been doing a lot lately, sigh).

Tuesday night I made banh mis. Salmon for everyone but my nephew I made his with pork leftover from the New Year's roast Last night we had chicken tortellini soup

Avocado toast with poached egg and Aleppo pepper

Hake baked in white wine and lemon with panko, roasted potatoes, green beans, and roasted romanesco

Chicken tacos

I made two proteins on New Year's Day since not everyone in my house eats pork. Roasted pork loin, which was roasted to 140 and served with a green peppercorn sauce And a maple-bourbon glazed chicken. Sides were creamed spinach and smashed sweet potatoes with carmelized apples.

I had a bizarre Instacart experience today. I am making pizza for dinner tonight, and realized yesterday that I did not have any mozzarella cheese. So, I placed an order for mozzarella, pecorino, risotto, and tomato passata. The order was dropped off, and had nothing in it but the tomato sauce, though the receipt said the cheeses had been shopped and charged. So, I called Instacart, they reached out to the driver and she came back with my cheese. The odd thing was that there was a jar of duck sauce and a bag of chow mien noodles in the bag that I did not order.

I did not like the two items together. They were fine alone, but together tasted odd to me. Last night, I made pecorino-mixed herbs breadsticks, and bucatini with clam sauce

Berry jam fried chicken on a cornmeal-scallion waffle with hot honey. We all liked the chicken, the waffle not so much, and thought the combination of the two was kind of odd. I would make the chicken again though. The picture makes it look darker than it was. Here is a link to that recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021444-berry-jam-fried-chicken?action=click&module=Local Search Recipe Card&pgType=search&rank=1

Paneer butter masala, chicken curry, maharajah rice and naan. I made the paneer from scratch as I have a glut of whole milk in my freezer thanks to an Instacart mixup. It was so much better than store bought paneer. I don't think there is any way to go back to store bought. All recipes are from Meera Sodha.

Dinner turned in to a bit of a chore yesterday. The original plan was for squash soup, but it turned out that I did not have all of the ingredients I needed. So, I pivoted to an eggplant stir fry, but the eggplant was rotten. So, we ended up with a chicken-bell pepper-shiitake mushroom-basil stir fry. It was fine but not really what I was in the mood for.

My niece made me cookies. My nephew gave me a pizza cutter. I have been complaining about the one I have for a while because it is old and dull. My husband put an avocado saver in my stocking. He also bought me a baking sheet that he read about in an article Mark Bittman wrote with food related gift ideas. We are going over to my parents' and brother's home later today for a quick (freezing) socially distanced gift exchange on their deck and I am sure my brother got me something food related.

Christmas Eve we just did a snack plate with some crostini I did not take pictures on Christmas. Last night's dinner, fresh pasta with white truffles

So the pork was a success. Everyone really loved the texture and the unctuousness of the fat. I did not get great photos because everyone was hungry and impatient. Here is a photo of the chops post-sear, and another bad iPhone photo of it sliced (excuse my husband's hand in the background---he was slicing more meat off the bone)

No CSA or fish deliveries for the next couple of weeks because of the holiday, so we placed an Eataly order to get in some festive stuff for the season. That's a fresh truffle in the clamshell in front. I gave my husband a truffle shaver in his stocking last Christmas and he finally gets to use it. The fruits and vegetables are just a random assortment selected by Eataly. They gave us two pomegranates and I just had a jar of arils delivered from Wegmans this morning. Lots of festive salads in our future I guess.